Crossword-Solution: ANTECEDENCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Antecedence | n. | The act or state of going before in time; precedence. |
| Antecedence | n. | An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “ANTECEDENCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the state of being antecedent | 1 answer |
| precedence | 19 answers |
| precession | 20 answers |
| Precursor. | 60 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ANTECEDENCE (5)
The third, to conduct my thoughts in such order that, by commencing with objects the simplest and easiest to know, I might ascend by little and little, and, as it were, step by step, to the knowledge of the more complex; assigning in thought a certain order even to those objects which in their own nature do not stand in a relation of antecedence and sequence.
When a cottage was buried by a little avalanche in 1772, the accident was attributed to the carelessness of the cottagers, who had allowed a light to be taken out of their dwelling in Christmas-tide.(1) We see the same confusion between antecedence and consequence in time on one side, and cause and effect on the other, when the Red Indians aver that birds actually bring winds and storms or fair weather.
The chief principle, then, of savage science is that antecedence and consequence in time are the same as effect and cause.(1) Again, savage science holds that LIKE AFFECTS LIKE, that you can injure a man, for example, by injuring his effigy.
And a posteriori, it will be proved by the principle itself when it is discovered, as involving universal antecedence in its very conception.
Mindful of the fact that his antecedence is small in the world of letters, the Negro writer is the more ardently inspired when he looks beyond and catches sight of golden fields into which no swarthy hand has thrust a sickle.